For the second time this summer, the Alaska chapter of the ACLU is suing the Municipality of Anchorage over its effort to clear a homeless encampment in a city park, which the group alleges is cruel and unusual treatment.
, leading officials from the installation to push the city to abide by terms of the lease agreement that prohibit camping.[It will be the second abatement of a large encampment in Anchorage since the closure of a shelter inside the Sullivan Arena earlier this spring. Thewas around Midtown’s Cuddy Park ahead of a music festival.
Homelessness officials with the city expect that a large number of the roughly 150 people camped at Davis will likely move over to aon a municipally-owned plot of land by Third Avenue and Ingra Street at the northern edge of downtown. Or they might bring what they can carry to other parks or the city’s extensive greenbelt.
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